Mugabe warns against Western calls for regime change in Zimbabwe

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Longtime ruler President Robert Mugabe scoffed at Western calls for "regime change" in Zimbabwe and warned his countrymen yesterday of foreign and local subversives in their midst.

Mugabe said former colonial power Britain was embittered by his 2000 program to seize thousands of farms owned mostly by the descendants of white British settlers.

"The British have resorted to shameless lies that there is no democracy or observance of human rights in Zimbabwe," Mugabe told mourners at the state funeral of Eddison Zvobgo, a ruling party founder.

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"They talk of regime change unashamedly. What right have they to affect that change, or even talk about it?" Mugabe said.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/30/1093717846713.html?oneclick=true